School District Wifi BuildOut

Design and implementation of school district wireless.

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A school district in Colorado contacted us about their wireless needs. This school district was facing multiple challenges: tight budget constraints, constrained time table, old buildings and lack of strategic planning.

My team and I worked with the IT director to implement an early spring proof of concept project in an elementary building. We used a centralized Ruckus controller along with multiple Ruckus APs.

During the summer our cabling teams cabled seven more schools and based on wifi analysis and layout designs we enabled wifi in the entire school district. We continued to use a centralized controller and point the individual school APs back to the central office.

The overall project took 2 months to coordinate with inventory arrangements, cabling teams and system configuration.

The school district was able to use the system to implement a limited BYOD program and begin a slow roll out of wifi enabled functionality among the different schools.